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Nami's Moonstone Quest - Discussion

TheHobbits·2/1/2016, 10:11:41 PM·8 votes·2,875 views

So I have just started my Uni course in animation and I'm getting ideas together to do stuff in the future (probably after the first 2 years :P) and I have always wanted to do a sort of silhouette style story of Nami's quest. Ever since Riot made the Tidecaller I was determined. Partly the reason I began this 2 year animation course.

If you haven't heard the Tidecaller please do so now. Simply beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-pJ1xMF7QE

But what I really love about this is it fits so well if you listen to it and imagine Nami on her quest from her written lore. (I wont copy and paste the whole thing. I'll let you have a read.) http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Nami/Background

It always gives me chills imagining Nami coming up out of the water to the shore with the Abyssal Pearl to exchange for the Moonstone only to find an empty beach at the end of the musical piece. The sad knowledge that without the Moonstone her people will be plunged into darkness.

http://i.imgur.com/poDr5.jpg

But it gets me thinking. Have we seen these artifacts before? The Moonstone. From Nami's lore "a moonstone, a powerful object found only in the towering reaches of the surface world." Where have we seen a powerful object in this location before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX8iSobsKTY

Towering reaches of the surface world - Check Powerful object - Check Gravel Mc'Soldier even shouts "Find the stone". Old man says "They'll die without it" as well.

http://s1.dmcdn.net/JSIwz/1280x720-MJb.jpg

The first time I watched it I instantly thought 'That has to be the Moonstone.' I believe that it is because of this even that leads Nami to find an empty shore and to take her quest to the land herself.

So what do you think. Would you say that that is the Moonstone or something else entirely?

13 Comments

Splision2/1/2016, 10:59:15 PM5 votes

tbh when I first read Nami's lore I thought the Lunari were supposed to be responsible for bringing the moonstone to the Tidecaller. I found it an intriguing coincidence that they had apparently vanished and the moonstone was needed (a lot can happen in 100 years).

MeilinII2/1/2016, 10:16:25 PM4 votes

I would love to see more lore involve my beloved Mermaid and I loved the Bard trailer. Headcanon accepted. Take my upvote. <3

Sharjo2/1/2016, 10:48:32 PM3 votes

So while I do like and support the headcanon that Bard is the hero who gave the marai their moonstones, I don't think that the egg from Bard: Mountain is the moonstone, mainly because nothing about the egg screams "moon related" to me. Celestial definetly, but I hold the expectation that the moonstone has some resemblance to the actual moon of Runeterra, which would be white/grey and probably very smooth in the case of the stone itself. Also the old man says "We'll die without it", not "they'll die without it", as he's referring to the Bards there; the stone was something meant for them to guard and they had a magical connection to it.

I like to imagine Bard recognised the need for the marai to survive in to the future, but at a point in the past the marai were forced in to a dire situation and trapped beneath the waves. Knowing that neither the depths of the ocean or the surface world were suitable homes for the marai he gave them a moonstone to ward off the terrors of the depths and allow them to live lives in safety, protected from the dangers of the surface and the deep ocean. Perhaps he hasn't appeared to Nami because it's about time for the marai to return to the surface, and so they would migrate to shallower waters and become a part of the world above once again. In the past the Tidecaller emerged, so potentially Bard spoke or interacted with them in some way, giving them instructions, a time and place to meet, details like that.

Bard might not be aware that Nami is actively pursuing the moonstone, and so he might not know the marai are actually in dire straits if Nami keeps going with her quest, as they'll never go to the surface and die waiting for their tidecaller.

Of course that's all speculatory bollocks but I do enjoy a good tragedy, if only to see something good come of them in the end.

resumed2/2/2016, 3:06:48 AM3 votes

new!! nami!! skins!!!

Bârd2/2/2016, 2:27:35 AM2 votes

Looking for this?

http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/32/Dream_Moon_Stone_Sprite.png

Melancholy Exile2/2/2016, 7:05:32 PM1 votes

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Old man says "They'll die without it" as well.

Closed captions, and my ears, would disagree with that.